Past Funded Projects

To provide a safe and fun environment for children and adults, individuals and families to learn about healthy options for food and cooking. We believe that the Charlotte Library is an ideal space for a flexible, mobile kitchen set-up, using the equipment supplies and training materials from the Charlie Cart Project. The Charlie Cart Project provides a unique and scalable educational program that enables hands-on learning about food, nutrition, and health in any setting.

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted emotional wellness in many ways. A team of health educators and plain language writers seek to address emotional wellness needs exacerbated by COVID-19 by adapting, developing, and promoting accessible authoritative consumer health resources. The team will adapt the English language How to M.O.V.E. toward Emotional Wellness print booklet into an interactive, web-based tutorial to provide an ongoing source of emotional wellness learning and support and link learners to additional topical NLM/NIH/CDC resources.

Healthdove Inc. is seeking this funding to expand their health information resources with the objective of increasing health literacy and reducing health disparities. The objective is to increase health literacy by distributing health information through the development of a newsletter, the implementation of health talk radio app and a series of health presentations/screenings in the community. Individuals will be able to use the information to make informed decisions about their health.

African American nurses are well-positioned to educate themselves and their communities about the importance of African American community engagement in precision medicine research like the National Institute of Health (NIH) All of Us research program.

Since 2001, the University of Illinois at Chicagos Library of the Health Sciences and the College of Nursing have been engaged in a series of evidence-based education programs targeted to public health nurses. These programs have expanded and built upon each other and used partnerships and connections towards providing equal access to biomedical information to all U.S. health professionals and the use of scientific evidence to guide healthcare decision making.

Dental caries i.e., tooth decay can cause severe pain that prevents Children from eating and sleeping. Despite the significant negative impact that caries can have on Childrens well-being, health professionals often do not provide families with the information they need to keep their Children cavity-free. A major contributor to this gap in preventive dental care is a lack of awareness on the part of healthcare professionals about the child dental health resources that are available through the NIH U.S. National Library of Medicine NNLM.

In a coordinated effort between Project STAY, New Alternatives for LGBT Youth, and Citizens’ Public Health Literacy (CIPHER), our group will seek to increase access to and awareness of HIV/AIDS health information, clinical resources, and enhance linkages to direct care services for high risk and HIV positive youth. Project STAY’s mission is to provide a medical “home” for high-risk and HIV positive youth by creating opportunities for young people to receive comprehensive, integrated clinical and supportive services delivered by a team of experienced, interdisciplinary providers.

The COVID pandemic has highlighted the need for the long-overdue dissemination of appropriate, timely, and accurate information to the General Public. With the rising tide of misinformation and the safety of the public in jeopardy, it is imperative that people are trained to find the most accurate information from reliable sources. Empowering individuals, community leaders, and engaged citizens with the tools to uncover accurate information lays the foundation for trust so that a sustainable web of understanding, information, and knowledge can be built.

La Casa de Salud (LCS) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of the Hispanic community by providing health information and resources and by facilitating the provision of health services through community health workers (CHWs). Over the last two years, LCS has educated and trained approximately 30 CHWs and strategically placed them where they can serve the greater Richmond Hispanic community. LCS has provided a variety of services to over 1,000 individuals during this time.

The Rhode Island College Foundation is facilitating the collaboration of the James P. Adams Library at Rhode Island College with the College’s Age-Friendly Rhode Island (a coalition of community and state agencies, healthcare and social service providers, individuals of all ages, advocacy and faith-based organizations, businesses, academic institutions and municipal leaders who are committed to healthy aging) to produce and deliver presentations on brain health.

Connect for your health is a partnership between Hershey Public Library and the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center to bring consumer health resources to those in our community who fall between the cracks of the digital divide. A series of virtual workshops will introduce attendees to the wealth of resources available online and in their community to support their health and wellness. This program will be targeted to those in our community who do not have in-home internet access. Attendees will be provided with a laptop and internet hot spot in order to attend.

This project will enhance Miami-Dade Public Library System’s (MDPLS) ability to provide health literacy information and reference services to the public through the expansion of staff health literacy professional development, a program for trauma-informed service staff training and to purchase the Public Library Association’s (PLA) customizable Digital Learn online platform offering training for digital literacy and health information.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV is entirely preventable, yet each year tens of the thousands of Americans are newly infected with the virus. As these numbers continue to increase, estimates have indicated that prevention and treatment are not reaching those who could most benefit, and that subgroups of this populate are disproportionately affected [1]. Notably, men who have sex with men and African American males consistently have the highest incidence rates [1]. Stigma at the community level has been documented as a barrier to HIV prevention [2].

The HIP for Seniors Health Information Project for Seniors will involve training for the approximately 75 participants at the Parkway Senior Center in Mobile on computer literacy and health information literacy HIL. HIL training will focus on resources from the National Library of Medicine and other agencies of the National Institutes of Health. The project will also include sessions by community professionals on health topics of interest to the senior population. NLM and NIH resources related to that session topic will be highlighted.